Mesopotamia
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100

What is the name of the form of writing in Mesopotamia?

Cuneiform

100

Which theme of geography describes where things are on earth - either absolute (Latitude, Longitude) or relative (near)?

Location

100
What is the type of writing used by the Aryan people of the Indus Valley?

Sanskrit

100

Which football player led a Nike campaign with the tagline "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."

Colin Kaepernick

100

What does BCE stand for?

Before the Common Era

200

What is the name for the belief in many gods?

Polytheism

200

What is an area of flat or rolling land of high elevation?

A plateau

200

What is the name of the seasonal winds in the Indian subcontinent?

Monsoons

200

For young voters, a major issue driving their decisions in recent election has been?

Healthcare

200

What century are we currently living in?

21st century 

300

Who is the leader that created the first set of laws in Mesopotamia? One example was "an eye for an eye"

King Hammurabi

300

What is a land that is completed surrounded by what?

An island

300

Which two rivers in this area helped create fertile soil?

Indus and Ganges

300

Native Americans in the most recent elections were struggling to have access to...

Vote

300

What does CE stand for?

Common Era

400

What is the name for an area of land that is under the control of one powerful leader?

Empire

400

What theme of geography describes how people, ideas, and goods travel from place to place?

Movement

400

In Hinduism and Buddhism, what is the force that decides the form people will be reborn into in their next lives?

karma

400

Bell Burnell, a scientist was finally honored for her discovery of what?

Pulsars

400

How many years have passed between 800 BCE and 300 CE?

1,100 years

500

Which World Wonder was built in Mesopotamia?

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

500

What line is 0 degrees latitude?

The equator
500

Who was the top of the Indus Valley caste system?

Brahmins

500

Carroll Spinney was the voice / puppeteer of these two characters from Sesame Street.

Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch

500

How many years have passed between 200 BCE and 2019?

2219 years